Biostar is known for unlocking and ocing on a budget and it looks like they got another fine budget board on their hands. I do like their layout, but Asrock is a bit better on spacing, Ill give you that. Price wise, this should be nice, but Id love to see an 890FX and enthusiast version from them.

I wish I could kill myself instead of using windows (OSX can suck it too).

The boards themselves are pretty solid. The problems lie in the BIOS. They're just really buggy with certain things. They're outlasting Asus in my book as far as lifespan. Asus has gone downhill bad (I won't use them for myself any longer and only at all if the price is good enough).

I use biostar in budget builds and don't have any issues relating to them as long as no OCing is involved. That is hit or miss depending on the bios.

The boards themselves are pretty solid. The problems lie in the BIOS. They're just really buggy with certain things. They're outlasting Asus in my book as far as lifespan. Asus has gone downhill bad (I won't use them for myself any longer and only at all if the price is good enough).

I use biostar in budget builds and don't have any issues relating to them as long as no OCing is involved. That is hit or miss depending on the bios.

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Asus put a bad taste in my mouth during the P4 Era, I had several customers come to me with machines with Asus boards that were faulty. ECS boards were more reliable. My first Asus board I had was junk and it was my last as Switching the video card to a different board maker fixed the issue. I never trusted Asus.

Asus put a bad taste in my mouth during the P4 Era, I had several customers come to me with machines with Asus boards that were faulty. ECS boards were more reliable. My first Asus board I had was junk and it was my last as Switching the video card to a different board maker fixed the issue. I never trusted Asus.

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Intel anywhere in the Pentium 4 era was your problem there
As far as I remember the AMD Asus boards rocked back then.

Second Built machine P4 Northwood 2.4B, Asus P4S8X, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro AIW, SB PCI 512, 460 Watt PSU, 1 Gig DDR. Issue was Crashing during games and random restarts, It required a Beta Bios, Several Driver Fixes, Bios Tweak, WIndows Tweaks Just to get compatible. I moved to AMD a year later and the Board was a MSI K7N2 Delta-L- Worked right out of the box with the video card.

ya only a few but You don't see anyone around here using them do you, I also bet those boards were cherry picked like the CPUs were.

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Nah, retail TPower boards were used by freelance overclockers in record attempts. Biostar also sells value boards, but it doesn't advertise overclocking potential. When it does, the boards really work as advertised.